Slotnick v. Staviskey’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.2d 31 · 1977
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 60 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Dennis v. Sparks (1980), Correa-Martinez v. Arrillaga-Belendez (1990)
84 federal appellate · 60 district · 11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Bishop v. Wood · Screws v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“existence and scope of the alleged conspiracy.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“In an effort to control frivolous conspiracy suits under 1983, federal courts have come to insist that the complaint state with specificity the facts that, in the plaintiffs mind, show the existence and scope of the alleged conspiracy. It has long been the law in this and other circuits that complaints cannot survive a motion to dismiss if they contain conclusory allegations of conspiracy but do not support their claims with references to material facts. Dunn v. Gazzola, 216 F.2d 709, 711 (1st Cir.1954); Kadar Corp. v. Milbury, 549 F.2d 230 (1st Cir.1977); Fletcher v. Hook, 446 F.2d 14 (3rd Cir.1971); Johnson v. Stone, 268 F.2d 803 (7th Cir.1959); Ellingburg v. King, 490 F.2d 1270 (8th Cir.1974); Powell v. Jarvis, 460 F.2d 551 (2d Cir.1972). This rule might have been applied with profit to this case. The complaint contains frequent references to conspiracy, but it offers few insights into the specific nature of the alleged concerted action. The only specific allegation regarding a conspiracy is the statement that the constable forged illegal documents and served them on the plaintiff at the request of the credit union’s lawyer and with the knowledge of the court’s clerk. Despite language hinting at a wider conspiracy, the plaintiff has failed to plead facts supporting these vague claims, and the courts need not conjure up unpleaded facts to support these conclusory suggestions. O’Brien v. DiGrazia, 544 F.2d 543 , 546 n. 3 (1st Cir.1976).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Raske v. Dugger · Wilson v. Brown“The simple fact that state law prescribes certain procedures does not mean that the procedures thereby acquire a federal constitutional claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.